SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-In called for the “strongest punishment” against North Korea, including new United Nations sanctions, after Pyongyang said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday.
Moon called for “all diplomatic measures including UNSC sanctions resolutions to completely isolate North Korea,” presidential security adviser Chung Eui-Yong said after an emergency National Security Council meeting.
The South would discuss deploying “the strongest strategic assets of the US military,” he cited Moon as saying — potentially a reference to tactical nuclear weapons which were withdrawn by Washington in 1991.
South Korea’s Moon calls for new UN sanctions on North
South Korea’s Moon calls for new UN sanctions on North
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